Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

Experts believe pieces of a small asteroid that lit up the night sky over parts of the UK on Thursday have landed in the west ...

New simulations show that Jupiter's massive moon Ganymede was knocked off its axis when it was struck by a roughly 90-mile-wide asteroid around 4 billion years ago. The colossal collision was likely ...

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

The Cretaceous period ended in a terrible disaster that had its origins beyond Jupiter. An asteroid more than six miles wide slammed into prehistoric Central America, kicking off a global heat ...

A new study revealed that a massive asteroid may have hit Jupiter’s moon Ganymede about 4 billion years ago, shifting the moon on its axis.

The researchers are not the first to propose that the space rock belonged to a group of asteroids that formed beyond the orbit of Jupiter. Their findings, however, strengthen the case thanks to a ...

The researcher says the meteorite likely broke off from an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter. We often see them speed across our. Skies, but in Canada, only about 70 meteorites have been recovered.

An asteroid an estimated 6-9 miles ... showing that it was a type that originated beyond Jupiter in the outer solar system. Sign up here. The impactor, based on the debris composition, ...

The asteroid likely responsible for wiping out roughly 75-percent of all Earth’s species, including non-avian dinosaurs, wasn’t just one of the planet’s rare mass extinction events—the ...